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The cover story of the March 25 issue of Ocular Surgery News focused on managing ocular injuries. Here are some of the issue’s publication exclusives:
Cover story
Urgency prevails in management of blunt, penetrating ocular injuries
Ocular injury is globally one of the leading causes of blindness and visual impairment. When researching data, however, the impression is that ocular trauma is underrecognized as a problem. Updated epidemiological studies are lacking, public awareness is low, and not enough is done regarding prevention. Read more.
Lindstrom’s Perspective
Patients with eye injuries need proper diagnosis, management
According to the United States Eye Injury Registry maintained by the National Eye Institute’s Office of Science, Communications, Public Liaison and Education, about 2.5 million eye injuries occur each year in America, and as many as 50,000 result in some level of permanent vision loss. Read more.
The Dry Eye
Follow the money, part 3
After finishing part 2 of “Follow the money” and thinking I was done, I had a chance to chat with a few of my friends in the pharmaceutical industry. We talked about how discounts between drug companies and pharmacy benefit managers actually work. It was also helpful to have done a little bit of reading about the Express Scripts-Anthem legal battle over how the spoils of the process are divided. Now I have a much better understanding about why it is that our patients pay so much money for their medications. Read more.
Back to Basics
Dealing with and learning from surgical complications
There are two types of doctors who never have surgical complications: those who do not operate and those who are not quite fully truthful. This humorous adage emphasizes that no matter how rare, all surgeons have complications. Even master surgeons, with decades of experience over tens of thousands of surgeries, will occasionally encounter an intraoperative or postoperative complication. When a surgical complication happens, we need to appropriately deal with it to restore a good visual outcome to our patient and we need to learn from it so that we can minimize the risk of future occurrence. Read more.
CEDARS/ASPENS Debates
What is the best way to calculate IOL power for cataract surgery?
As cataract surgical precision improves, the bar continues to be raised for surgeons to attain the best outcome possible. Advancements in techniques and technology provide the tools, but there is another aspect that is just as important, the decision-making. Biometry is much more precise, but this does not mean much if the IOL calculations are not done properly. Recently, there have been numerous new IOL formulas to help surgeons select the proper IOL, but this has added more confusion for the surgeons. This month, Marjan Farid, MD, and William B. Trattler, MD, discuss how they calculate IOL power for cataract surgery. Read more.